Book Marketing Buzz: Book Promotion & Publicity Tips: How to Promote Your Books with Children’s Book Author Bonnie B. Cuzzolino

Book Marketing Buzz: Book Promotion & Publicity Tips: How to Promote Your Books is a continuing series to help authors learn how to promote their books. If you would like to be a guest blogger for our book promotion and publicity series, click here.

Our guest blogger for today is Bonnie Cuzzolino, author of Letter of Love From China.

Marketing my book has been a challenge and time consuming but well worth it.
I am always finding new ways as a self published author. I started by promoting to adoption Yahoo groups, attending adoption events and children’s Book Fairs.

I have expanded to Virtual Book tours and entering book contests. My book recently won the prestigious 2008 Silver Mom’s Choice Award for the Best Children’s Book in the Family Life category. This win has offered endless opportunities to promote my book. Interviews and exposure to publishers at the BEA Book Expo in La, Dove Family product review, entry into the library and school children’s book catalogs and discounts to many promotional web sites including membership in Independent Publishers Associations.

I have sent flyers to my local schools and libraries offering book readings and a program centered around Chinese culture for children and their parents.

I have sent free copies of my book to adoption agencies to review and share with their families.

I have researched the net for marketing opportunities and subscribed
to the Writer’s Digest magazine.

My suggestion is for new writers to try all these opportunities and invest in as much promotional publicity as your budget can afford.
All the promotional tools I have used have increased my sales and have given my book exceptional exposure.
Best Of Luck to all.

Award winning author Bonnie Cuzzolino and her family live in New Jersey. Bonnie and her husband Ray are the parents to a beautiful daughter adopted from Hubei, China in November of 2001 at 12 months old. She and her husband are now waiting for a referral for their second daughter from China through Holt International Children’s Services. Bonnie has had a lifelong passion to write children’s books. This book is her first and is dedicated to her daughter, Jillian Mei. You can visit her website at http://www.plumblossombooks.com/.

Bonnie’s virtual book tour is brought to you by Pump Up Your Book Promotion at www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com and choreographed by Dorothy Thompson.